[arch-general] arch-release

[David C. Rankin]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 03:19:30 am Nathan K. Bathory wrote:
> >
> > pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that  - is it
> > possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on
> > another machine, just reverse the process? Would save me heaps of
> > time putting a system back together as happened last week when i had
> > to replace my HDD, taken me ages to 'remember' everything I had on it.
> >
> >
> > Richard
> 

	To save the download time, if the machines are the same architecture:

> `pacman -Qq > pkg.list`
> then on the other machine

(as root) rsync -uav username at oldmachine:/var/cache/pacman/pkg 
/var/cache/pacman

> `sudo pacman -S $(cat pkg.list)`
> 

	If you rsync (or scp or move with a usb stick) the package files from the 
oldmachine to the newmachine before issuing the "sudo pacman -S $(cat 
pkg.list)`, then the install uses the local files and avoid the time required 
to download them. You can easily do a 10 minute install that way.

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